Chemical Exposure from Health and Beauty Aids
This is always a topic of some debate, meaning whether or not our cosmetics and health aids are actually hurting us by inhalation or actual skin absorption. This topic will be a two part discussion, and it’s an actual article. Enjoy reading.
After reading an article in National Geographic about exposure to chemicals in everyday life, I found myself reading labels on my cosmetics and health and beauty aids that I use on a daily basis. While the article addressed a variety of compounds present in everything from teflon pans to flame retardant fabrics, it also emphasized colognes, shampoos, and other personal hygiene articles.
Thus, my inquisitive nature led me to read the various ingredients on my favorite shampoos, deodorants and the like. Even thought the article madea point of the omnipresence of chemicals in all things around us, there’s something about products we actually rub onto our skin and scalps that is more unsettling, at least to me.
So, as my lavel reading started, I picked up the deodorant list of ingredients. It started with the active ingredient that is found in most antiperspirants and deodorants, aluminum zirconium trichorhydrexum (sp?). After that there was a list of chemical compounds so foreign to me that I couldn’t differentiate what was harmful and what was not.
More on the subject of cosmetics and health and beauty aids and the chemicals that we may not really be aware of to come……This is exactly why I just bought a natural deodorant.
The fact that I am rubbing aluminum, a heavy metal, directly into my armpits every day really bugged me, especially since you have a lot of vital lymph nodes in your underarms. Also, aluminum has been tentatively linked ot alzheimers.
